KnowBe4 + Strongarm: Provide Real-Time Phishing Education for Users

What do ransomware, credential theft, and stolen intellectual property all have in common? These common security attacks often start with a phish—an email sent to users that attempts to steal information or get them to click on a malicious attachment or link. If the phish succeeds, your entire network can be at risk.

What You Can Do About Phishing Attacks

There is no one solution to the challenge of phishing attacks. The attackers are getting better and better at disguising emails, and your busy employees can’t be expected to be 100% vigilant. So what can you do to protect your organization against these attacks? There are five major steps we believe all organizations should take:

Educate your users on how to spot phishing emails

Evaluate via test cases and simulated attacks how well employees understand the training and fill in the gaps as needed

Empower employees to report the suspicious emails to protect the entire organization

Use DNS-based protections to block outbound connections to phishing sites

Offer real-time training and feedback to users who do click on phishing emails

To help with #5 on this list, Strongarm is excited to be partnering with KnowBe4 to offer immediate and real-time training and feedback to users who click on phishing emails.